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fal.ai

Serverless API platform for running 40+ AI models (image, video, audio, 3D) with transparent pay-per-use pricing and auto-scaling concurrency.

MiniMax logo
MiniMax

MiniMax pay-as-you-go API platform. Video generation via Hailuo models (2.3 / 2.3 Fast / Hailuo-02), image generation via image-01, plus speech and LLM endpoints. Developer-facing alternative to the Hailuo consumer subscription.

Pricing model

Pay-per-use
Pay-per-use

Free tier

Yes
No

Access

API
APIWeb UI

Cheapest plan

$0.00/mo

$0.00/mo

Models offered

150

ACE-Step Audio-to-Audio Duration, ACE-Step Duration, Bernini-R, Bernini-R Image, Bria GenFill V2 +145 more

9

MiniMax Hailuo 02, MiniMax Hailuo 2.3, MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast, MiniMax Image-01, MiniMax Music 2.6 +4 more

Pros

  • Fast inference; 40+ models including FLUX, Veo, Recraft, Kling, Seedream
  • Per-model and per-second transparent pricing
  • Auto-scaling concurrency (2-40 requests)
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Cons

  • No permanent free tier
  • Possible charges on HTTP 422 if GPU processed
  • Pricing varies per model; compare before use
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Model availability

Every model offered by at least one selected tool, plus trending models (marked ) shown even when neither tool hosts them. A · means that tool does not host the model.

FLUX.2 Max

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.07/gen

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FLUX.2 Max

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.28/gen

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FLUX.2 Pro

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.03/gen

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Seedream 4

ByteDance · 1K

$0.03/gen

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Seedream 4

ByteDance · 2K

$0.03/gen

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Seedream 4

ByteDance · 4K

$0.03/gen

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Nano Banana 2

Google · 1K

$0.06/gen

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Nano Banana 2

Google · 4K

$0.16/gen

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Nano Banana Pro

Google · 1K

$0.15/gen

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Nano Banana Pro

Google · 2K

$0.15/gen

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Nano Banana Pro

Google · 4K

$0.30/gen

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GPT Image 2

OpenAI · 1K

$0.2110/gen

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GPT Image 2

OpenAI · 2K

$0.2220/gen

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GPT Image 2

OpenAI · 4K

$0.4010/gen

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Recraft V4

Recraft · 1K

$0.04/gen

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FLUX.2 Klein 9B

Black Forest Labs

·
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Midjourney v7

Midjourney

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Recraft V3

Recraft

·
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Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

Stability AI

·
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Z-Image

·
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Qwen Image 2

Alibaba · 2K

$0.0350/gen

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Qwen Image 2 Pro

Alibaba · 1K

$0.0350/gen

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Qwen Image 2 Pro

Alibaba · 2K

$0.0750/gen

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Qwen Image 2512

Alibaba · 1K

$0.02/gen

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Qwen Image Edit

Alibaba · 1K

$0.03/gen

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Qwen Image Edit 2509

Alibaba · 1K

$0.0315/gen

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Qwen Image Edit 2511

Alibaba · 1K

$0.03/gen

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Qwen Image Layered

Alibaba · 1K

$0.05/gen

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Qwen Image Max

Alibaba · 1K

$0.0750/gen

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Wan 2.5 Preview

Alibaba · 1K

$0.05/gen

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Wan 2.6 Image

Alibaba · 1K

$0.03/gen

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Wan 2.7 Image

Alibaba · 1K

$0.03/gen

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Wan 2.7 Pro

Alibaba · 1K

$0.0750/gen

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Z-Image Turbo

Alibaba Tongyi-MAI · 1K

$0.0039/gen

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ERNIE Image

Baidu · 1K

$0.03/gen

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ERNIE Image Turbo

Baidu · 1K

$0.01/gen

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FireRed Image Edit

Baidu · 1K

$0.0325/gen

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FireRed Image Edit 1.1

Baidu · 4K

$0.2300/gen

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FLUX.1 [dev] Redux

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0250/gen

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FLUX.1 [pro] Erase

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.03/gen

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FLUX.1 [pro] Virtual Try-On

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0050/gen

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FLUX.1 [schnell] Redux

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0030/gen

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FLUX.1 Kontext [max]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.08/gen

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FLUX.1 Kontext [multi]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.04/gen

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FLUX.1 Kontext LoRA

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0350/gen

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FLUX.1 SRPO [dev]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0250/gen

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FLUX.2 [klein] 4B Base

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.0265/gen

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FLUX.2 Dev

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0120/gen

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FLUX.2 Dev

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.0480/gen

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FLUX.2 Flash

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0050/gen

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FLUX.2 Flash

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.02/gen

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FLUX.2 Flex

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.05/gen

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FLUX.2 Flex

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.20/gen

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FLUX.2 Pro Outpaint

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.03/gen

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FLUX.2 Pro Outpaint

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.0450/gen

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FLUX.2 Turbo

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0160/gen

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FLUX.1 Krea

black-forest-labs · 1K

$0.0250/gen

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Bria GenFill V2

Bria · 1K

$0.04/gen

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Seedream 4.5

ByteDance · 2K

$0.04/gen

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Seedream 4.5

ByteDance · 4K

$0.04/gen

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Seedream 5 Lite

ByteDance · 2K

$0.0350/gen

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Bernini-R Image

fal.ai · 1K

$0.03/gen

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Nucleus Image

fal.ai · 1K

$0.01/gen

·

HiDream O1

HiDream · 1K

$0.01/gen

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HiDream O1 Dev

HiDream · 1K

$0.0029/gen

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HiDream O1 Dev

HiDream · 2K

$0.0050/gen

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Ideogram Custom Models

Ideogram · 1K

$0.03/gen

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Ideogram Remove Background

Ideogram · 1K

$0.01/gen

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Ideogram v3

Ideogram · 1K

$0.03/gen

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Ideogram V4

Ideogram · 1K

$0.01/gen

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ImagineArt 1.5 Pro

ImagineArt · 1K

$0.0450/gen

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ImagineArt 2.0

ImagineArt · 1K

$0.03/gen

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ImagineArt 2.0

ImagineArt · 2K

$0.05/gen

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ImagineArt 2.0 Edit

ImagineArt · 2K

$0.05/gen

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Krea 2 Medium Turbo

Krea · 1K

$0.0150/gen

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Kling O1 Image

Kuaishou · 1K

$0.0280/gen

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Kling O1 Image

Kuaishou · 2K

$0.0280/gen

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Luma Uni 1

Luma · 1K

$0.0450/gen

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Luma Uni 1 Max

Luma · 1K

$0.1020/gen

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Longcat Image Edit

Meituan · 1K

$0.15/gen

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MAI Image 2.5

Microsoft · 1K

$0.05/gen

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MiniMax Image-01

MiniMax · 1K

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$0.0035/gen

Cosmos 3 Super Image

NVIDIA · 1K

$0.04/gen

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GPT Image 1.5

OpenAI · 1K

$0.20/gen

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Phota

Phota · 1K

$0.09/gen

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Phota

Phota · 4K

$0.18/gen

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Pixelcut Remove Background

Pixelcut · 1K

$0.0160/gen

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Recraft V4 Pro

Recraft · 1K

$0.25/gen

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Recraft V4.1

Recraft · 1K

$0.04/gen

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Recraft V4.1 Pro

Recraft · 1K

$0.25/gen

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Recraft V4.1 Utility

Recraft · 1K

$0.04/gen

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Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro

Recraft · 1K

$0.25/gen

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Hunyuan Image 3

tencent · 1K

$0.10/gen

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Hunyuan Image 3 Instruct

Tencent · 1K

$0.09/gen

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Vidu Q2

Vidu · 1K

$0.0390/gen

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Grok Imagine Image

xAI · 1K

$0.02/gen

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Grok Imagine Image

xAI · 2K

$0.02/gen

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Grok Imagine Image Quality

xAI · 1K

$0.05/gen

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Grok Imagine Image Quality

xAI · 2K

$0.07/gen

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GLM Image

Zhipu · 1K

$0.05/gen

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Krea 2 Large

1K

$0.06/gen

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Krea 2 Medium

1K

$0.03/gen

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Sora 2

OpenAI · 720p

$0.10/sec

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Grok Imagine Video

xAI · 480p

$0.05/sec

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Grok Imagine Video

xAI · 720p

$0.07/sec

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Veo 3.1

Google

·
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Kling 3.0 Video Pro

Kuaishou

·
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Kling 3.0 Video Standard

Kuaishou

·
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Ray 2

Luma AI

·
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Magnific Creative Video Upscaler

Magnific

·
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Runway Gen-4

Runway

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MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 480p

·

$0.0167/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0450/sec

$0.0467/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.08/sec

$0.0817/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 540p

$0.0170/sec

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MiniMax Hailuo 2.3

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0467/sec

$0.0467/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3

MiniMax · 1080p

·

$0.0817/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0317/sec

$0.0317/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast

MiniMax · 1080p

·

$0.0550/sec

Happy Horse

Alibaba · 720p

$0.14/sec

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Happy Horse

Alibaba · 1080p

$0.28/sec

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Krea WAN 14B

Alibaba · 720p

$0.0250/sec

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Wan 2.6

Alibaba · 720p

$0.10/sec

·

Wan 2.6

Alibaba · 1080p

$0.15/sec

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Wan 2.6 Flash

Alibaba · 720p

$0.05/sec

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Wan 2.6 Flash

Alibaba · 1080p

$0.0750/sec

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Wan 2.7

Alibaba · 1080p

$0.10/sec

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Wan Motion

Alibaba · 720p

$0.06/sec

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Bria Video Remove Background

Bria · 720p

$0.0042/sec

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Seedance 1.5 Pro (audio off)

ByteDance · 720p

$0.0520/sec

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Seedance 1.5 Pro (audio on)

ByteDance · 720p

$0.0520/sec

·

Seedance 2.0

ByteDance · 720p

$0.2419/sec

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Seedance 2.0

ByteDance · 1080p

$0.3024/sec

·

Seedance 2.0 Fast

ByteDance · 480p

$0.2419/sec

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Seedance 2.0 Fast

ByteDance · 720p

$0.2419/sec

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Bernini-R

fal.ai · 720p

$0.04/sec

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Bernini-R

fal.ai · 1080p

$0.08/sec

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Veo 3 (audio off)

Google · 720p

$0.20/sec

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Veo 3 (audio on)

Google · 720p

$0.40/sec

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Veo 3 Fast (audio off)

Google · 720p

$0.25/sec

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Veo 3 Fast (audio off)

Google · 1080p

$0.25/sec

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Veo 3 Fast (audio on)

Google · 720p

$0.40/sec

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Veo 3 Fast (audio on)

Google · 1080p

$0.40/sec

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Veo 3.1 (audio off)

Google · 720p

$0.20/sec

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Veo 3.1 (audio off)

Google · 1080p

$0.20/sec

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Veo 3.1 (audio off)

Google · 4K

$0.40/sec

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Veo 3.1 (audio on)

Google · 720p

$0.40/sec

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Veo 3.1 (audio on)

Google · 1080p

$0.40/sec

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Veo 3.1 (audio on)

Google · 4K

$0.60/sec

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Veo 3.1 Fast (audio off)

Google · 720p

$0.10/sec

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Veo 3.1 Fast (audio off)

Google · 1080p

$0.10/sec

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Veo 3.1 Fast (audio off)

Google · 4K

$0.30/sec

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Veo 3.1 Fast (audio on)

Google · 720p

$0.15/sec

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Veo 3.1 Fast (audio on)

Google · 1080p

$0.15/sec

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Veo 3.1 Fast (audio on)

Google · 4K

$0.35/sec

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Veo 3.1 Lite (audio off)

Google · 720p

$0.03/sec

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Veo 3.1 Lite (audio off)

Google · 1080p

$0.05/sec

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Veo 3.1 Lite (audio on)

Google · 720p

$0.05/sec

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Veo 3.1 Lite (audio on)

Google · 1080p

$0.08/sec

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Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro

Kuaishou · 720p

$0.07/sec

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Kling 2.5 Turbo Standard

Kuaishou · 720p

$0.0420/sec

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Kling 2.6 Pro (audio off)

Kuaishou · 720p

$0.07/sec

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Kling 2.6 Pro (audio on)

Kuaishou · 720p

$0.14/sec

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Kling 3.0 Turbo Pro

Kuaishou · 1080p

$0.14/sec

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Kling 3.0 Turbo Standard

Kuaishou · 720p

$0.1120/sec

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Kling O1

Kuaishou · 720p

$0.1120/sec

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Kling O1 Standard

Kuaishou · 720p

$0.0840/sec

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Kling O3 4K

Kuaishou · 4K

$0.42/sec

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Kling O3 Pro (audio off)

Kuaishou · 720p

$0.1120/sec

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Kling O3 Pro (audio on)

Kuaishou · 720p

$0.14/sec

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LTX 2.3 Quality

Lightricks · 540p

$0.0024/sec

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LTX 2.3 Quality (ref-to-video)

Lightricks · 1080p

$0.0024/sec

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LTX Video 2.0 Fast

Lightricks · 1080p

$0.04/sec

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LTX Video 2.0 Fast

Lightricks · 4K

$0.16/sec

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LTX Video 2.0 Pro

Lightricks · 1080p

$0.06/sec

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LTX Video 2.0 Pro

Lightricks · 4K

$0.24/sec

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LTX-2 19B Distilled

Lightricks · 1080p

$0.0008/sec

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LTX-2.3 Fast

Lightricks · 1080p

$0.04/sec

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LTX-2.3 Fast

Lightricks · 4K

$0.16/sec

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Luma Ray 3.2

Luma · 720p

$0.20/sec

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Luma Ray 3.2

Luma · 1080p

$0.40/sec

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Luma Ray 3.2

Luma · 540p

$0.10/sec

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MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast Pro

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.33/sec

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MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Pro

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.49/sec

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Cosmos 3 Super

NVIDIA · 540p

$0.05/sec

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Cosmos Predict 2.5 Distilled

NVIDIA · 720p

$0.08/sec

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Sora 2 Pro

OpenAI · 720p

$0.30/sec

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Sora 2 Pro

OpenAI · 1080p

$0.50/sec

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Pika 2.2 Pikaframes

Pika Labs · 720p

$0.04/sec

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Pika 2.2 Pikaframes

Pika Labs · 1080p

$0.06/sec

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PixVerse 5.5

PixVerse · 480p

$0.03/sec

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PixVerse 5.5

PixVerse · 720p

$0.04/sec

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PixVerse 5.5

PixVerse · 1080p

$0.08/sec

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PixVerse 5.5

PixVerse · 540p

$0.03/sec

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PixVerse 6

PixVerse · 480p

$0.0250/sec

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PixVerse 6

PixVerse · 720p

$0.0450/sec

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PixVerse 6

PixVerse · 1080p

$0.09/sec

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PixVerse 6

PixVerse · 540p

$0.0350/sec

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PixVerse C1 (audio off)

PixVerse · 480p

$0.03/sec

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PixVerse C1 (audio off)

PixVerse · 720p

$0.05/sec

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PixVerse C1 (audio off)

PixVerse · 1080p

$0.0950/sec

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PixVerse C1 (audio off)

PixVerse · 540p

$0.04/sec

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PixVerse C1 (audio on)

PixVerse · 480p

$0.04/sec

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PixVerse C1 (audio on)

PixVerse · 720p

$0.0650/sec

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PixVerse C1 (audio on)

PixVerse · 1080p

$0.12/sec

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PixVerse C1 (audio on)

PixVerse · 540p

$0.05/sec

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Kandinsky 5

Sber · 540p

$0.0160/sec

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Kandinsky 5 Pro

Sber · 720p

$0.12/sec

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Kandinsky 5 Pro

Sber · 540p

$0.04/sec

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Vidu Q2 Turbo

Shengshu · 720p

$0.05/sec

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Vidu Q2 Turbo

Shengshu · 1080p

$0.05/sec

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Vidu Q3 Turbo

Shengshu · 480p

$0.0350/sec

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Vidu Q3 Turbo

Shengshu · 720p

$0.0770/sec

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Vidu Q3 Turbo

Shengshu · 1080p

$0.0770/sec

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Vidu Q3 Turbo

Shengshu · 540p

$0.0350/sec

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Hunyuan Video 1.5

Tencent · 720p

$0.0750/sec

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Veed Fabric 1.0 Fast

Veed · 480p

$0.10/sec

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Veed Fabric 1.0 Fast

Veed · 720p

$0.20/sec

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Grok Imagine Video 1.5

xAI · 480p

$0.08/sec

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Grok Imagine Video 1.5

xAI · 720p

$0.14/sec

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Vidu Q3

480p

$0.07/sec

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Vidu Q3

720p

$0.1540/sec

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Vidu Q3

1080p

$0.1540/sec

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Vidu Q3

540p

$0.07/sec

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Minimax Music

MiniMax · music

$0.03/gen

$0.03/gen

Minimax Music 2.5

MiniMax · music

$0.15/gen

$0.15/gen

MiniMax Music 2.6

MiniMax · music

$0.15/gen

$0.15/gen

ACE-Step Audio-to-Audio Duration

ACE-Step · music

$0.0120/gen

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ACE-Step Duration

ACE-Step · music

$0.0120/gen

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DiffRhythm: Lyrics to Song Audio

DiffRhythm · music

$0.06/gen

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ElevenLabs Music Duration

ElevenLabs · music

$0.80/gen

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Google Lyria 2

Google · music

$0.20/gen

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MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD

MiniMax · music

·

$0.10/gen

MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo

MiniMax · music

·

$0.06/gen

Stable Audio 2.5

Stability AI · music

$0.20/gen

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Stable Audio 2.5 Edit

Stability AI · music

$0.20/gen

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YuE: Lyrics to Song Audio

YuE · music

$3.00/gen

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Last verified

Jun 17, 2026

May 20, 2026

Cost comparison

A side-by-side view of generation costs for models shared across the selected tools.

Minimax Music

Cheapest per-generation cost.

Minimax Music 2.5

Cheapest per-generation cost.

MiniMax Music 2.6

Cheapest per-generation cost.

MiniMax Hailuo 02

Cheapest per-second cost.

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3

Cheapest per-second cost.

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast

Cheapest per-second cost.